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Fife & DromNew York, New York

Fife & Drom is the collaborative endeavor of NYC-based musicians Abby Ahmad and Mark Marshall. Original songs inspired by
the works of blues pioneers Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Jimmy Reed, Son House and beyond. Their music aims to revisit the cultural impact of these revolutionary sounds with a statement that is visceral and true to form.Something old, new, borrowed...something Blues....more

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Well, you know I love you, baby
But I loathe that wicked tongue
Yeah, you know I love you, baby
But I loathe that wicked tongue
See, that cruel mouth gonna haunt you
When your baby's on the run

You see that wicked tongue, child
Is the rebel in this rift
You see that wicked tongue, child
Is the rebel in this rift
And now I'm airing out the laundry
For every neighbors' nose to sniff

Every time I try to please you
You go and start a fight
Every time I try to please you
You go and start a fight
Baby, how can I believe you
When your bark feels like a bite?

Well, you know I love you, baby
But I loathe that wicked tongue
Yeah, you know I love you, baby
But I loathe that wicked tongue
So, won’t you get down on your knees, boy
Won’t you get down on your knees, boy
Won’t you get down on your knees, boy
And let that foul mouth have some fun

Track Name: Barnburner

When you’re all taxed out
When your heart aches
When your call’s maxed out
When your start breaks

Cut to the middle of the chase
Where deepest doubts do lay
Then take a flame to your fiddle
C’mon, spark your own light
Find a way

When you’re all cracked up
When your worth shakes
When that wall comes up
When the earth quakes

Cut to the middle of the chase
Where toil and troubles weigh
Then take a flame to your fiddle
C’mon, spark your own light
Find a way

When your sun won’t shine
When the woe wakes
When you’re walking blind
When the toll takes

Cut to the middle of the chase
Where all them shadows play
Then take a flame to your fiddle
C’mon, spark your own light
Find a way

Track Name: Ghosts

There is a cold breeze
Sweeping from behind
You feel a tight squeeze
Creeping up your spine
Do you believe?
Or are you out your mind?
You beg, you plead
And then you’re best to just resign
Cause when you go astray
Ghosts gonna make you pay

Your past is itchin', twitchin'
Rising from the grave
Leaving you wishin'
That you would have just behaved
See, all your colors
They got lost behind the shade
And now your hitched
Between a bullet and a blade
Cause when you go astray
Ghosts gonna make you pay

You can't run away
Got to face today
Time has shown us
What you're made of
There's been foul play
Now there's hell to pay
Time to make the predator
The prey

We’re gonna make you pay
Gonna make you pay

Ghosts….

Track Name: 90 Years

Starlight shining ever bright
Take me now
I've earned my right
For 90 years
I've lived through night
And 5 years mourned
My true love's plight

I wish I may,
How I wish I might
Never greet the morning light
Never greet the morning light

Gonna lay me down
Underground
Gonna lay me down
To get found

Gonna lay me down
Underground
Gonna lay me down
If I wanna be found

For, now I lay me down to sleep
I have not left one tear to weep
But I have time I cannot keep
And think in rhymes I cannot speak

Breath is faint
My pulse is weak
Take me on,
Into the deep
Take me on,
Into the deep

Gonna lay me down
Underground
Gonna lay me down
To get found

Gonna lay me down
Underground
Gonna lay me down
To get found

Gonna lay me down
Gonna lay me down
Gonna lay me down

I’m fast asleep...

Track Name: Little Orphan Frannie

When I was just the age of four
Police they knocked upon my door
Told me that I couldn't stay